Eucla (Friday 26th April - Saturday 27th April)

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April 27th 2013
A long day spent in the car, hot, dry, dusty, one long and straight bitumen road skirted by small shrubs and not a tree in sight, where else but the Nullarbor Plain. Yet half way along the Bight and a short drive toward the coast and we are given an amazing panorama of the waves crashing against the 80m cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. One can only imagine what the early explorer's though ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Eucla

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more